A Literary Limerick – The Hobbit

Today, we return to the playful corruption of great literature, in a piece requested by the much loved (she paid me to say that. Even though it’s true.) Ginger Snaap.
The main story will follow at some point (I should probably reread…nahhhh), but this is the first piece to begin the epic.
(No, The Silmarillion doesn’t count. Because I’ve never read it.)

So pull up a mug of that fine hobbit wine, sharpen the tips of your elven ears, and threaten your neighbors into silence with your Dwarvish axe.

As we limeri-cize…The Hobbit….The HobbitTo him, being hungry was the worst.
He stole Precious and made Gollum’s heart burst.
The Dwarves sought to bag him
To help beat the Dragon.
That’s how Bilbo spent his eleventy-first.

You’re welcome.
(You can see all the limericks by clicking Limerick above the banner.)

There was a full-length cartoon version of it in the 70s that was pretty bad, done by Rankin and Bass, who also did a whole bunch of christmas shows.
Then Ralph Bakshi (cool world) did a hideous animated/live action Lord of the Rings.

Superbly done..
You managed to.condense.the.Hobbit.into.5 lines and having read the book at one point ..I think you covered the main points into.a more enjoyable.read. definitely less of.a timesuck. Are you taking.requests?
Hi TMWGITU! 😉
Good.one.Guapman..you are becoming quite the limeri..cist?..sounds good right?

I don’t know if it’s quite a talent… 😉
But I bet you’d get some interesting responses!

You reminded me, a long time ago in grade school, I got busted reading a scifi anthology called “The Last Man On Earth…”, a bunch of great stories all based on that premise.
Instead of getting in trouble, she gave the class a creative writing assignment to build a story starting with The last man on earth sat in a room…